Closer to home, the campaigns close to my heart continue to do amazing work. In May last year Everyday Sexism teamed up with other feminist campaigners and won a hugely supported campaign against Facebook’s attitude to content that incites rape and domestic violence – Facebook publicly acknowledged the issue and took action to rectify it. There’s been a lot going on in the background since then, and this April Laura Bates publishes the Everyday Sexism book.

Today I came across this fantastic TEDx talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, called “We should all be feminists”. She’s known for her writing, and here as a speaker her intellect and her warmth come across beautifully.

In it she says, “Culture does not make people; people make culture.”

And as if to prove her point (or perhaps because she is just so inspiring), Beyoncé featured part of that talk in her song ***Flawless (unfortunately the video is not available to view in the UK, but the track is 99p on iTunes or Amazon).